A man is dead after local law enforcement and emergency crews this weekend responded to a report of his car crashing into Spring Lake.

Several nearby people had already removed Roger Featherlin, 56, of Macomb from the vehicle and began conducting CPR when Macomb Police officers arrived at the scene around 8 p.m. Saturday toward the south end of the lake, according to Deputy Chief Eric Lenardt.

The McDonough County Sheriff's Department's dive rescue team, as well as the fire department and McDonough District Hospital paramedics, also responded to the scene. The vehicle was retrieved from the water and the dive rescue team conducted a "thorough search," and no other victims were found.

"We spoke with witnesses on scene who stated that the subject that was driving the vehicle had stopped right there by the pump house and had talked with them, asked them basically how the fishing was doing," Lenardt said Tuesday. "They conversed and then the vehicle pulled away. One of the subjects said he heard a loud crash and saw that the vehicle had gone up into the timber and apparently had struck a tree.

"The vehicle was coming out of the timber in reverse and then went down toward the lake, where it entered the water, at an apparently high rate of speed."

Lenardt said Featherlin was known to have a seizure disorder and the incident appeared to be an accident. According to the 56-year-old's obituary, he died Saturday at MDH.

Featherlin's obituary states he was an avid outdoorsman. Graveside memorial services were slated for 10:30 a.m. on Friday at Doddsville Cemetery.